Racism at ICE?
It is unsettling to learn that the U.S. Immigration service, including one of its leaders, Julie L. Myers, supports or takes part in actions like this…
From the NY Times [April 9, 2008]
The nation’s top immigration enforcement official [Julie L. Myers] ordered the destruction of photographs of an office Halloween party that showed a white agency employee dressed as a black detainee, according to a Congressional investigation whose report was released in April, 2008.
Julie L. Myers, the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ordered that the photos be removed from a digital camera in a “coordinated effort to conceal” her role in awarding one of the top costume prizes to the employee.
Ms. Myers, who was acting assistant secretary at the time, might have moved to cover up the events to avoid derailing her Senate confirmation.
Ms. Myers had been a judge at the Halloween contest. The staff member who won the “most original costume” prize wore a dreadlock wig, what looked like a prison jumpsuit and black face paint.
“I’m a Jamaican detainee from Krome — obviously, I’ve escaped,” the employee, referring to a detention center in Miami, announced to the judges, provoking laughter, according to the Congressional report.
Ms. Myers then posed for photographs with the employee — whose name was not released — smiling for the camera.
Resources:
The Julie Myers fiasco: It’s not the racism. It’s the stupidity. [michellemalkin.com]
DHS Official Accused of Misleading [washingtonpost.com]